Simon Stedicorn: Papermaker

Ruh, ruh
Chyeah
Yeah, yeah!

I just wasn't made for these times (no)
Wasn't made for these salt mines (naw)
Wasn't made to sit in glass houses, (not me) uh
Or stand in long lines (oh no)
Look at pretty pictures online (ugh)
Put pretty pictures online, uh!
No thanks I'm fine
I paint a pretty pricture in... grime
1000 words, (woo) 1000 birds that are flyin'
Now they heard how my download sound so certifiable (yeah)
Swear it on your Gutenberg Bible (hoo)
How I heard I vibe I sorta liked and turned it viable (I did)
Now halle-hallelujah
I could do a church revival or a orchestra recital
A future funeral or rewind and re-baptize you (woo-ooo!)
De-institutionalize or un-suicidal you

Aslan's dyin', (damn) I'm sittin' here cryin' (oh no)
Thinking how I spent my entire life lyin' (oh no!)
Thinking how I spent my entire life tryin' (oh no, don't do that!)
Lookin' everywhere for the heart of a lion

Now it's B.C.E. when I rhyme, Simple Simon
I heard about a temple that they built in Zion (they did)
But will they let us up inside of it? (keep going)
Or will invading armies already have conquered and divided it? (oh no)
It's undecided yet (eek)
Will the rabble rebuild from the rubble?
Or keep digging deeper into trouble? (no)
Redouble these efforts with the trowel and the shovel? (don't do that)
With the grout and the mortar and the gravel (oof)
Cows and the oxen for the cattle
Sheeps, horses, ropes, yokes, and saddles
Slaves that are chattel (come on!)
Now that's rage that I channel (ahh!)
Changin' that channel or XM station
On the dash panel (dont stop-stop) (uh!)
They got a pundit panel that only wants to babble on about
Adding another tower to Babylon (uh!)
As soon as they have the parcel of Promised Land
They plan to stand it on
Then it's on to coliseums and pantheons (stop that)

Statues to last for eons (just stop)
Built on the backs of peons (come on)
I'm still lookin' for leons (who's wit me now?)
Más allá de la sierra, beyond (más) (¿dónde están?)
Broken glass, flashlights, and neons

Now bow down to the throne how I'm so error-prone (so prone)
How I'm so scared 'cause the air's so full of drones (everywhere)
Everywhere I see clones, lookin' at phones
Lookin' at screens, lookin' at teens (teens!)
"Do you ever wonder what it all really means?"
Do you ever wonder what goes on behind the scenes? (do you?)
I had a dream about the steam when I was 17 (I did) (what?)
They told me that that was obscene and that I was a fiend (what?)
The fact o' the matter is that I really was too green (aw)
My manner was t-too sweet and my hands were too c-clean (oops)
Complete with the cocoon, my saloon, so baboon (ooh-ooh, ah-ah)
Stock banana 'til the morning come
Keep exploring the jungle until the voyage done (oof)
There's a Kingdom o' Oro and a Fountain o' Youth (awww yeah)
I'm Amundsen, out here supplyin' the proof (woo)
I think I'm waking from a deep sleep (this boy is dumb)
I think that mountain slope was so steep (we just begun) (woo)
I think I might lay down with some sheep (woo) (Simon says) (woo)
Osiris, get me some papyrus—
And a feather for the stylus

"'There is no land uninhabitable, nor sea unnavigable'
Such an heroic temper could overcome all things
But the cost was great, the sufferings intense
(yo left, yo left, yo left, right, left)
'Having eaten our shoes and saddles boiled with a few wild herbs
We set out to reach the kingdom of gold'
Says Orellana in 1540"